The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-07-16
NOTES.

1T is characteristic and original cal.
culation of Joseph Cook that there are
enough Christian people in the world to
join hands at arms length and reach
around the globe eleven times.
The Nation puts it in this way: The
old New England Congregationalists did
not believe with their hearts what they
talked with their mouths about the nat
ure and prospects Of the human infant"
The Sunday School Times says
" Neither Baron Munchausen nor Guilt
ver's Travels is trustworthy as a record
of unvarnished facts" Well, we are glad
to hear that. There may have been doubt
in some minds on the point.
The Congregdtionalist. in referring to
the recent examinations at Andover, says,
"While no great prominence may be
given by the professors to the new depar-
ture' views, the students seem to be sat-
urated with them through and through"
PHILLIPS Brooks well says: " If the
future is like the past, men will come to
disbelieve many things which they be-
lieve now, and yet they will keep faith in
God; men will come to believe many
things which they disbelieve now, and
yet they will keep faith in GoD."
"ADIRoNDAoK" Murray has new freak.
He Is trying to get up big yachting
boom for Lake Champlain, which has a
thousand miles of coast line, and is des-
tined, he believes, to be as popular for
yachting as the Adirondack region is for
camping, cunning and fishing.
Rev. ALFRED YOUNG, Of the Paulist
Fathers, in New York city, insists that
the true function of the choir is to lead
the congregation in singing, and not to
do the singing for the congregation. He
defends this view in vigorous manner
in an article in the Catholic World.
HE Buddhists continue to make vig-
orous efforts to counteract the spread of
Christianity in Japan, and the Honjanji
sect was never SO busy. One school in
Kioto alone is to be rebuilt at cost OF
$4,000, and other Buddhistic seminsries
and colleges are being started in various
parts of the country.
The Christian Register remarks: "To
our orthodox friends who are oscillating
between future probation and natural
light in regard to the destiny of the
heather, we commend the words of Soc
rates to his judges: There can no evil
befall good man. whether he be alive
or dead If this is true at all it is just
as true Of good heather as of good Chris
tians. AS for bad heather, they ought
not to be punished any worse than bad
Christians, and probably would not be if
the theological seminaries had not de-
creed their everlasting misery"
The Waterbury american tells of an
Episcopal clergyman of Connecticut who
not long ago insisted on officiating at
funeral contrary to the express wishes of
all the persons interested. Inquiry re-
vealed the fact that he had the canonical
right to do so, but he was severely CEN
sured by all right-thinking persons for
thus ins s;ssilx on a bare technical right,
and one of his own clerical brethren said
that no man of fine feeling would thus
thrust himself where he was not wanted,
avan n ho hod oil tho oanon, ~ 2I,o ol,,,.oL
behind him.
IT is proposed to consolidate three
Unitarian church societies in Boston,
namely, those of which DR.. Edward Ever
EFT Hale, Mr.. Bartol and Mr. Savage are
the pastors, and build for them a new
edifice on the Back Bay. DIR. Bartol
wishes to retire from the active duties of
the ministry on account of old age. DR..
Hale wishes to be relieved from pastoral
work in order that he may have more
time for literary pursuits; and so if the
plan is carried out, Mr. Savage will be the
regular pastor and preacher of the church,
with DIR. Hale as his associate.
The ambition of President McCosh, of
Princeton College, was to be famous
preacher, and he also dreamed of being
professor of philosophy in one of the
great Scotch universities. Little did
he think, he says, of helping to fight the
great battle for the spiritual independ-
ence of the Scotch church; of being six
teen years in Ireland rearing up young
college, with students now scattered
throughout the whole world; or of spend
ing his ripest years in distant America in
building up an ancient college and Civ
ing it life and youth.
The Springfield Rep ublican remarks,
and with an example in point: "Just out
side of Vermont village up on the hill
side lives, il he is still living, an elderly
farmer of quiet life and moderate fortune
accumulated by hard toll. On Sundays
he is the orthodox deacon, and he raised
sons and daughters and looked after
their education in the village. The old
est son is now President of one of the
Pacific Railroads. comprising about 1000
miles Of road, and has climbed to the
place by his own exertions. Yet we hear
that the poor man has no chance in this
country"